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  • Date > 1969-05-15 (remove)

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  • believe that President Johnson went through Alabama on a train. believe that he did in 1960. I don't think President Kennedy came to Alabama, but I do believe that President Johnson came through the state on what they called a Lyndon B. Johnson Special
  • How Wallace classified LBJ’s political stances from the Senate through Presidential periods; the 1960 Presidential campaign; the Birmingham demonstrations and Wallace’s discussion with Robert F. Kennedy regarding them; Wallace’s high regard for John
  • been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
  • of 1936 on, either as an associate delegate or a full delegate. B: At the 1960 convention, were you active in the fight between Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson for the nomination? A: No, I was not present at the 1960 convention. B: Then, sir, during
  • Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America
  • Kennedy wanted the vice president to represent him, right? C: Right at the independence of an African Republic--Senegal. dent asked me to go along. of two or three people. And the Presi­ We took a plane and a congressional delegation I remember
  • . We used to meet once a year, and in this particular year we met in Washington. It was just shortly after President Kennedy's assassination and Johnson's succession to the presidency. M: This would be early 1964 or late 1963? V: Well, I'm